diff --git a/components/stopwatch.rst b/components/stopwatch.rst
index c3ebd41031d..862b8808c84 100644
--- a/components/stopwatch.rst
+++ b/components/stopwatch.rst
@@ -48,6 +48,17 @@ You can also provide a category name to an event::
 You can consider categories as a way of tagging events. For example, the
 Symfony Profiler tool uses categories to nicely color-code different events.
 
+Usage in symfony
+----------------
+
+In a Controller, do::
+
+    $stopwatch = $this->get('debug.stopwatch');
+    $stopwatch->start('anEvent');
+
+Or inject :class:`Symfony\\Component\\Stopwatch\\Stopwatch` by autowiring.
+Thereafter this timing can be seen in the profiler.
+
 Periods
 -------